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flaccere

flaccēre, flaccescere [CL] , (of vegetation) to droop (also fig.). c795 non me auctumnali frigore ~entia verborum folia in hujus cartule exaggerare gremium Alcuin Ep. 86; cito fragilis caro unde sumpta est revertetur et omnis decor illius ‥ ~escit Ib; flacentia [cf. Is. xix 10], contracta GlC F 217; ~entia, contracta, aclungre GlH F 427; ~eo, [flac]cui, marceo, ardeo Ib. F 428; ave, virgo, cujus rore / mundus ante flaccens flore / redivivo viruit Walt. Wimb. Virgo 73.

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